5th century BC
(6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) ----
Events
- Demotic becomes the dominant script of ancient Egypt
- Persians invade Greece twice (Persian Wars)
- Battle of Marathon (490)
- Battle of Salamis (480)
- Athenian empire formed and falls
- Peloponnesian War
- Approximate beginning of Iron Age in northern Europe
- Buddhist monastic university at Nalanda, India established.
Significant persons
- Pythagoras of Samos, Greek mathematician. See Pythagorean theorem. (582 - 496 BC).
- Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563 - 483 BC).
- Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism (551 - 479 BC).
- Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525 - 456 BC).
- Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521 - 485 BC).
- Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496 - 406 BC).
- Pericles of Athens, politician (c. 495 - 429 BC).
- Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian (c. 485 BC).
- Euripides of Athens, playwright (c. 480 - 406 BC).
- Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470 - 399 BC).
- Aristophanes of Athens, playwright (c. 446 - 385 BC).
- Darius II, king of Persia (reigned 423-404)
- Ezra and Nehemiah active in Judea.
- Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and years
Category:5th century BC ca:Segle V AC da:5. århundrede f.Kr. de:5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. es:Siglo V adC eo:5-a jarcento a.K. fr:Ve siècle av. J.-C. it:V secolo AC lb:5. Joerhonnert v. Chr. nl:5e eeuw v. Chr. ja:紀元前5世紀 pl:V wiek p.n.e. ru:V век до н. э. sl:5. stoletje pr. n. št. sv:400-talet f.Kr. uk:5 століття до Р.Х. zh:前5世纪th century BC
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